Crossover 23 Beta1 arrived! Means CX23 will follow soon as expected.

A quick heads-up, as you know there is worked on a solution for Age of Empires 2 DE (see previous post). Well the issue is fixed at least in the Beta of CX23 (engine), although I heard Codeweavers pushed a fix to the Crossover 22 as well. Anyhow this is the announcement of CX23 which includes a lot of goodies including support for the EA app, which I already mentioned earlier. If you cannot wait get Crossover here… and use promocode: “bridgeover23” (without quotes).

Get some popcorn and start reading the announcement!

CrossOver 23 includes an update to Wine 8.0.1, bringing with it over 5,000 changes that offer improvements to a variety of applications. This release also includes an update to Wine Mono 7.4.0, vkd3d 1.8, DXVK 1.10.3 and MoltenVK 1.2.3.

Our most exciting feature is initial DirectX 12 support on macOS: Diablo II Resurrected is currently running well on macOS Ventura, making it the first DirectX 12 game working on a released macOS version. This breakthrough was the culmination of years of development, and we look forward to continuing to aggressively pursue support for even more DirectX 12 titles.

We’re pleased to announce that this release also includes initial support for geometry shaders and transform feedback on macOS. This unlocks many games that previously suffered from missing graphics or black screens in-game. Deep Rock Galactic, Dyson Sphere Program, Risk of Rain 2, TEKKEN 7, Octopath Traveler, Street Fighter V, Astroneer and Trailmakers are just some of the titles that are now running on CrossOver 23. Note that using wined3d instead of DXVK will produce the best results for games using geometry shaders. And speaking of wined3d, our team also noted some nice performance improvements with wined3d. In particular, Rocket League is now running with consistent 60 fps and visible nameplates on macOS using wined3d.

EA App is now running on both macOS and Linux with CrossOver 23. Many EA App games are now working well, including Sims 4, Titanfall 2 and Mass Effect Legendary Edition. If you are running EA App games through Steam, make sure to install “EA App for Steam” into your bottle: that CrossTie installs needed dependencies.

We now have support for Diablo IV for our Linux users. We also worked around an XWayland bug, and Office 365 applications are now running with better performance with Wayland under CrossOver Linux 23.

One of the most requested features we get for the CrossOver GUI is the ability to uninstall applications, and that is now possible with CrossOver 23. Uninstalling is now a quick operation: simply go to the “Bottle Details” at the bottom of the right sidebar for your bottle and right-click on the application listed under “Installed Software” to find the uninstall option.

Of course, this release also contains some important bug fixes, including fixes for the latest Quicken, Steam, Age of Empires II Definitive Edition and Ubisoft Connect updates that caused those applications to stop working with CrossOver.

Lastly, a note about macOS Sonoma. Currently, the CrossOver beta runs on the Sonoma beta, but there are definitely known issues. We are working on fixes, and we plan to release an update to CrossOver 23 that will be fully compatible with Sonoma.